Remarriage of divorced in Church of England?

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 16, 2000 | Copyright information

Church of England officials have proposed that the church should drop its ban on the remarriage of divorcees whose former spouses are still living. The officials, who constitute a working party, chaired by a senior diocesan bishop, Michael Scott-Joynt of Winchester, insisted in its report that it was not abandoning the church's teaching that marriage is for life, but added: "We believe that it can be said in a literal sense of two living people that they were married and are no longer married." Launching the report on January 25, Bishop Scott-Joynt said it addressed the "reality" ...

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